23.11.2016
Another
splendid day, where even more progress was made. If yu look away from
the pesky fact that my rotary tool just died. I’m not sure how that
even happened. It was fine perfectly fine yesterday. I even dismantled
it to see if any thing was disconnected or if clogged. But no, there
was nothing, sero, silch, NOTHING! Luckily
I have a spare one,which also died to mysterious circumstances. At
least the warranty was not void and I had
the receipt. Rotary tools are just too
fickle, they're made to do many things, yet they break down on me
at the drop of a hat. Anyhow, I decided to remake the gas canister,
by recycling an old spent deodorant bottle. Due to a hard angle on
the edge, I carefully trimmed the middle ring and the top edge.
Useful items can be found all over the place. Which is an art form on
its own. Scrounging is the art of utilizing useful doodads, as
project parts. Which means that the whole blaster is made from spare
part, store bought evafoam and buckets of paint.
The
only major setback I had today, was the pesky Chinese letters on Meis
gun. Writing them is the easy part. Actually deciphering the strokes
and the symbol, not so much. Despite the high resolution picture, the
texture turned out to be quite crap. But fortune favours the bold and
the patients, and a lovely viewer actually had a
copy of the exact letters. The only wrong symbol I could ind, is the
one on the canister. These seemingly pointless stickers is what
separate good from mediocre. After all I am a trained professional.
An airbrush would be super handy to have, but those are way too
expensive. Which forces me to go with a simple sponge, it’s a much
faster and infinitely more rough way to apply color. I suppose it
should be possible
to polish off the brush strokes, before
going for shiny plastic gloss.
#overwatch #cosplay #mei #zaceron #blaster
Njål Sand
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